Lord Coe, who knows a thing or two about successful bids, has even been parachuted in to try and sort things out.

One of the biggest powers within the FIFA delegates, Jack Warner, says that England's bid team members are"lightweight".

Lord Triesman, who chairs the team, only bothers to work on the bid part-time. And now Sir Dave Richards, the Chairman of the Premier League has had enough of the whole thing and resigned.

These people do not realise quite how seriously their inability to conduct themselves in a professional manner impacts upon England.

England have gone from being in a very strong position to being third favourites.

Holding the World Cup in England would be the best thing to happen to football here in 50 years, and these wealthy individuals seem to be putting their own egos ahead of the enjoyment of millions of sports fans.

In the midst of the worst recession for fifty years and with unemployment rocketing, the average Brit needs every bit of positive news they can get. Not to mention the billions of pounds boost to the British economy that hosting the Championships would generate.

Even if they can't stand each other, they MUST present a united and professional front. They are creating a PR and media disaster. So lets hope someone takes charge, gets this lot in a room, bangs some heads together and gets this sorted out, quickly.

Otherwise a whole generation will miss out on the biggest show on earth.